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CHAPTER LXX 333 work is necessary. The value here comes from the criticism that is given. 11. But because a school is honestly conducted it does not follow^ that it may give value for the money. It may take two or more years to master plotting to the point where good work may be done. Ob- viously a school cannot devote this time to any one pupil for the money that he can afford to pay. It must show a profit on the twen- ty or thirty dollar tuition fee and get rid of the pupils as quickly as possible to make room for others. And even where the pupil is as- sured that his studies have only begun, there is always the feeling of finality that comes with the closing of the course. From no angle can a school course be really helpful unless the instructor can continue to advise his pupil, and this cannot be done at any cost that will be attractive to the pupil. 12. When schools lost attractiveness to the pupil (though they are still fairly well patronized) there came into being the revision bureaus and sales agencies. These conduct a general business, selling, criti- cising, typing and revising. The appeal is based on the fatuous be- lief of the author that it must be something other than the value of the idea that keeps his scripts from acceptance. He turns with eagerness to the revision bureau and sends in his script with a fee. Unless it is hopelessly bad, he is told that revision is needed. This will cost a few dollars and there is a further charge for typewriting the new script. Then an effort may be made to sell the story, but in the long run it generally gets back to the author, who may have had many stories passed through the same course in the meantime, and herein lies the reason for holding a script for so long. It will not do to get the returns back to the author until his enthusiasm begins to wane and he no longer contributes several dollars a month in fees. 13. It is from these revision and typewriting fees that the agency makes its profit. Not one of them could exist for a month or even pay clerk hire from the commissions received from sales, but the re- vision fees and typing charges sometimes represent large sums and yield a handsome profit to the conductors. 14. The selling systems, where they try to sell, are all wrong, for scripts often come in in lots of from twenty to one hundred, and in one batch of more than eighty that this writer was permitted to ex- amine not a single one was in the style of production obtaining in that studio, though the manager of the company had written that he had selected stories that he knew would appeal to the Editor. 15. If your plot has merit it will sell, no matter what its form, and the studio will make the reconstruction. If a plot has no value, it will not sell, no matter what its form may be. Technique will help you to present your idea in better form, but it is almost impossible that a revision writer can get from your script any more than the Editor can. The technique must be your own work if it is to show your idea to advantage. 16. The most recent development is an offer to make the film for